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[@johnboie4964]

Title was misleading... Let me know if anyone actually 'takes a pop at you', and millions of Trump supporters who still believe in democratic priciples like free speech will come to your aid.

[@karenrobertsdottir4101]

Here's the philosophical issue I still face after watching your video: Of course "all Russians are evil" is a deeply problematic view. The problem is that the people who I see it overwhelmingly are Ukrainians who are being actively bombed, watching their friends and loved ones die, watching the horrors of occupation and all the vile things coming in from the occupiers, etc. Whom, for so many of them, it can even be painful to mention Russia by name, rather than just "the enemy" or "the invaders" While I absolutely don't agree with their view that all Russians are evil, I absolutely do *understand* their view, why they feel as they do. I rather feel that the most ethical case is to not argue with or even push back against such statements when they come from those who are already suffering at the hands of the Russians - that the general net impacts of doing so outweigh the positives, that doing so primarily just causes harm. What is your view?

[@VladVexlerChat]

@@karenrobertsdottir4101 complex, diverse economy of sentiment is very impotent - Ukrainians have justification for unqualified rage at Russians. At least as one feeling among others. The issue with the comment here is that it most certainly comes from a Western citizen - and in that context it’s a pathological and consumerist expression of fascisation.

[@johnboie4964]

@@VladVexlerChat Do you have any evidence that more than a handful of russians (those still inside russia) have bothered to speak out against what russia is doing to Ukraine in even the smallest of ways? (Complaining about Ukraine shooting back doesn't count) Then what the enraged Ukrainians say isn't entirely inaccurate either. Also - read your last sentence again. Slowly. Repeatedly. With the highest resolution mirror you can find. In the brightest light you can currently tolerate. While trying to name one of those supposed Trump lies.

[@johnroscoe2406]

@@johnboie4964 lol tell another joke while you're at it. (re: your asinine like that Trumpers care about free speech)

[@1whywouldi]

Vlad, your Russian viewer here, left Russia two years ago because of military conscription. You have an astounding and in-depth understanding of Russia and a very refreshing presentation. You're building an amazing community.

[@RuneDrageon]

As a fellow member of the community i appreciate you being here and glad to hear you're safe!

[@BrianCrooks-iv8lm]

Well said!

[@volkerr.]

Won’t you give us some more inside of what you personally have gone through and what you know about those left behind in Russia. 😊🇺🇦👍

[@BrianCrooks-iv8lm]

@@volkerr. That'd be very interesting, and might help us get into the minds of RuZZians, and understand them a bit better. I don't have the faintest idea what makes them tick

[@pm1395]

You left because of conscription, as you said. I understand that, ok. But did you also leave because you disagreed with what your country was doing to Ukrainians? Or don't you give a zhit about the Ukrainians? Like the vast majority of Russians. (Or maybe you just didn't mention that you do care about Ukrainians in your post, to keep it short. I'm hoping it's that. )

[@KenVet]

Vlad, your videos have helped me, both physically and mentally, with my own situation and daily life. Best regards to you Sir.

[@VladVexlerChat]

Grateful!

[@RealEuropatriot]

@@VladVexlerChat You are a soldier of God just like soldiers fighting on the battlefield, only you fight on the battlefield of knowledge. Thank you.

[@whatsgoingon71]

Vlad, you beautiful, beautiful man. As a person with a post-soviet background, whenever my information space fills up wit the daily news of russian atrocities in the war, i am happy to see a new video from you, that helps me to ground myself and cleanse the pallette from all this negativity that russia brings into my life.

[@neilclay5835]

Well said. I feel the same way.

[@marijo1951]

A masterclass in how to debunk elegantly, gently and devastatingly.

[@VladVexlerChat]

@@marijo1951 thank you !

[@basinUkraine]

Thank you for all your uploads with all your health problems. I love to listen to your voice of reason. It always calms me down. When I get really frustrated and angry with all the stuff here and all the politics that are outside of my sphere of influence, I listen to you. Lots of love from Mykolaiv, Ukraine.

[@VladVexlerChat]

Love back from London.

[@BrianCrooks-iv8lm]

❤ 🇺🇦🇬🇧

[@magnusnilsson1962]

Making an offering to the beautiful algorithm to benefit of this beautiful channel.

[@johnboie4964]

Ditto.

[@mariarucci78]

Vlad, I send you all my love. Get better soon beautiful mind ❤

[@VladVexlerChat]

🌻 back at you

[@JB-mb1qf]

So glad to see you dear Vlad! Shining light! Love, Julia

[@VladVexlerChat]

@@JB-mb1qf Thank you so much Julia!

[@kernowpolski]

Vlad - you are such a hero. Your constancy in posting, while battling your illness is awe inspiring. You have provided such wisdom and encouragement to so many. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[@VladVexlerChat]

@@kernowpolski Stephen thank you so much!

[@philpaine3068]

I live in a neighbourhood in Toronto where the writer Josef Škvorecký lived until his death in 2012. We would meet occasionally in a dingy little pub that was preferred by down-and-outers and taxi drivers, day labourers, etc. As a prominent figure in Czech literature, and the publisher in exile of most serious dissident Czech writing after 1968, he considered himself a Czech living in Canada. After all, when the great liberation occurred, Václav Havel made his first trip abroad to Toronto just to speak to him. But his many obligations in Canada kept him from visiting "home" for quite some time. When he finally did make the trip, and returned, he told me "I only just now realize that I'm Canadian." His many years in this country had changed him in many ways, and the Czechoslovakia of his youth no longer existed. In Prague, he told me, he was a foreign tourist, and the maple syrup had found its way into his veins. After this, his fiction writing took a distinct turn in subject matter and style. Unfortunately, in his last years he began to make that sad turn towards cranky conservatism that happens so often among aging writers, and I ceased to find him as interesting a pub companion.

[@Yasen99]

Highly individualistic personalities often take such trajectory. Plus, in a nation such as Canada (a nation of immigrants, like the US) it’s much easier to fancy yourself whatever you want without too many practical difficulties.

[@philpaine3068]

@@Yasen99 A good point. The neighbourhood I speak of is one of the most ethnically diverse places on Earth, and it's in a city where more than half of the population was born outside of Canada. Not to mention it also being the country's largest "gaybourhood." This is typical of Canadian cities.

[@edm-london1660]

'Conservatism' - I think there's good and bad. 'Good' opposing things such as left-wing nanny state, WOKE, and feminism. In his book 'The Cowards', I think it is, he focuses on a man infatuated with a woman. There's nothing more feminine and weak than a man 'infatuated' with a woman as in this novel. Most men go through this phase but if you're going to focus on this in a novel then focus on how bad it is and how the man grew out of that. That would be a 'Conservative'-minded thing to so. But he didn't as he was a young writer at the time inexperienced about life.

[@BrianCrooks-iv8lm]

I'm proud to be a member of your beautiful community, Vlad 🇺🇦🇬🇧

[@CB6028]

Vlad, you are much more patient and detached in your analysis of crude criticism like this then I could ever be. I guess that’s why you’re a respected public intellectual, and I’m just a guy from Chicago who consumes your content eagerly. Anyone who has ever watched even one of your very thoughtful videos, would understand that you are neither evil nor truly Russian. I think of you as an internationalist, in that you have clearly been influenced by and are knowledgeable about several different cultures. Be assured, there are thousands of us out here who value your words and thoughts and rely on them to better understand this very confusing world we live in. Be well.

[@BrianCrooks-iv8lm]

🇺🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@johnroscoe2406]

Vlad after reading your bio you are an inspiration. Glad you're here for us and happy we're here for you!

[@VladVexlerChat]

@@johnroscoe2406 thank you very much!

[@ethanswanson9209]

Thanks for your videos Vlad. I used to teach in a community where a number of the kids had parents born in Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia. Their parents had usually come over in the 90s shortly before they were born. I wouldn't say the kids taught me anything about what Russians were definitely like, but they were certainly different than the other kids (with many generations in the country) who they grew up around.

[@BrianCrooks-iv8lm]

It'd be interesting to learn what the difference was, if you have a moment, please?

[@ethanswanson9209]

@@BrianCrooks-iv8lm Lots of little things about how they carried and presented themselves. On a more concrete level, they seemed less interested in education beyond high school than other kids. They had slight accents. Parents varied from not speaking English to struggling to heavily accented. Conferences could be interesting as the parents would work to talk with me in English and then switch to talk to their kid. Boys were quicker to ignore authority than other boys. Girls had a slightly more formal fashion sense than other girls.

[@BrianCrooks-iv8lm]

@@ethanswanson9209 Thanks for that, which is most interesting.

[@biturboism]

Beautifully broken down and presented, Vlad. It was a privilege to watch.

[@Shuffledhearts]

I've watched most of your videos and I just wanted to say thanks for the great content. I've been reflecting a lot of your comments about being against polarization and how we should see people not as enemies but as opponents. I really appreciate the kindheartedness of your social and political analyses.

[@VladVexlerChat]

Much much appreciation back your way !

[@DarkestAlice]

Thank you, Vlad, for reprimanding gently. I hope, you are getting better. Lots of love to you and the beautiful community 🤗

[@teracushman801]

Who else feels like they're back at uni in their favourite tutorial? Vlad, your honesty and gentleness are refreshing and thought-provoking.

[@ianleake]

I really appreciate you sharing your thoughts in this chat. I found the last few minutes especially profound. I will listen again this evening.

[@torawikstrm2208]

You are a star. Shines for us who see you... while even though we are alone, we know that there are many who see you. Thanks!

[@bobbiebellinger8415]

Thanks for the discussion. You always give me something to think about. Feel better my friend.

[@gwarejko]

Some of your best work. The existential/phychologiclal edge to your perspective is well received here. Thank you!

[@fergusfitzgerald977]

Very relaxing and deeply intellectual chat Vlad ! I was sipping a nice glass of wine and later listened to some classical music! We need these calm moments in the storm !

[@BrianCrooks-iv8lm]

Cheers 🍷

[@michelleagnew8780]

‘You still win by being free.’ This is a wonderful video. I continue to grow in respect for you, sir! I always come away from your videos with a better understanding of a variety of things.

[@RKGrizz]

I really like this idea of thinking for yourself as not bringing preconceived ideas along as an answer, rather that it is reacting responsibly to what is presented to you.

[@Nebris]

This was lovely, calming. Thank you....

[@danielc196]

Thanks Vlad. Sending heartfelt wishes.

[@Broken_robot1986]

Buckled in!

[@4merxtian432]

We love you vlad. Speak truth to power. Ed in Ohio.

[@ColleenC-n5v]

I love what you say about the sacredness of being free to be discerning and self-governingly analytical and judicious as to what you choose to eat or not eat politically, intellectually, feelingly, and so on……Thank you again for yet another thoughtful meditative analysis…..always ontological, always poignantly articulated. Bless you, Vlad. 💜🌻💜🌻💜🌻💜🌻💜🌻💜🌻💜🌻💜🌻💜🌻💜🌻💜🌻💜

[@CarolynAcosta-mw2dl]

Thanks for clarifying some concepts that were vague in my mind, but I sort of understood. You are always so calm and empathic and sometimes when one feels less empathic, your niceness calls on one's better self. Thanks!

[@eruno_]

"FREE NATIONS OF POST-RUSSIA" is forum organised annually, it's full of politically active refugee national minorities from Russia, whose voices are important to hear and understand, from Chechens to Buryats.

[@kentalanlee]

Take care of your health, Vlad. Your voice tells be something may be going to your lungs.

[@VladVexlerChat]

Thank you! Some chest issues, possibly connected with endothelial damage.

[@BrianCrooks-iv8lm]

​​​Please don't damage yourself out of a sense of duty to speak to us please, Vlad. We aren't going away anywhere, and we'd still be here when you get back, if you need to take a break!

[@lenmoss378]

Yes Vlad, so wonderful to live in a free space. Thank you.

[@lindabastable3021]

I can't thank you enough for your continuing posts. You never fail to stretch my mind. Please put your health first. You may never grasp just how big an impact you have, nor of how many people you have had that impact upon.

[@MarcoSiebert-x7g]

Vlad takes 20 minutes to defeat an argument that was for everybody obvious dumb to begin with. That is exactly my kind of humour!

[@B_r_u_c_e]

Another top lesson from Vlad for everyone.

[@raycambridge8950]

Such an interesting post, Vlad. Many people are like this in having all sorts of cultural influences about them, especially in places like down here in Oz.

[@TiddlesTheBearBaiter]

Vlad, I love your occasional references to the antipodes...we very rarely get a mention in discussions about the West (admittedly we're the South), or world affairs and politics. Its a beauddiful thing to hear. Thanks.

[@ChrisTian-rm7zm]

All my best thoughts and wishes go out to you, dear Vlad.

[@JonathanSwiftUK]

I must be culturally Indian, because I eat a lot of curries.

[@standbyukrain]

Wish you health Vlad, we care about you ❤

[@CaroAbebe]

Hello, very beautiful Vlad :) Thank you so much for everything you do for us.

[@farnarkleboy]

Thank you Vlad, this was a very very helpful chat

[@farmersdotter7]

Thank you Vlad. Your gentle yet firm manner has helped me confront some of the more unsavoury aspects of my previous online behaviour that I still struggle to contain when I’m feeling frustrated with other people’s sometimes naked hatred. Responding in kind (indeed unkind) is an unproductive waste of time and erodes dignity from both parties. Arguing with strangers on the internet has become an Olympic sport and most comment sections are a sluice channel of pent up bile that I believe is helping sow even more discord and division. This is one of the channels that I can come to where empathy reigns and love is the rule. Thanks also for your thoughtful analysis in these fraught times. You’re helping me navigate through not only the topics you cover, but applying what I’ve learned more broadly and trying to be more measured and empathetic in my approach to news that makes me feel angry and frustrated. Lots of love from Canada. Thanks to you I will redouble my effort to be kind or not engage until I properly think things out through the lens of what I’ve learned here.

[@davidlloyd1526]

I'm not buying a "friendly" Russia post-Putin. Not in my lifetime.

[@alanclater3767]

Not in anybody's lifetime

[@chatnoir1224]

I don't buy "democratic and peaceful" post-Russian independent republics

[@DirtySanchez943]

Love, Light, Wlad ❤️‍🔥💖💝✨️

[@sharpvidtube]

I prefer to think that there are good people in every country. We're all capable of being evil and have to be aware of that fact.

[@perfidy1103]

Vlad, as someone who also has ME, albeit now much less severely than you do, I wanted to say two things. First: you have my sympathies. I know how horrible it is as an illness, first in the affects of the symptoms on your life, but secondly in the affect on one's mental health through the combination of not having a good understanding of what is actually causing it, and also the way in which it just ruins your ability to plan for the future given you never know when an episode is going to hit you or how long it will last. Secondly I want to say thank you for being attention to the condition. I am somewhat hopeful that it will receive more attention given the possible links to long COVID (although I also fear that it'll turn out that only a subset of ME sufferers have an equivalent condition to long COVID, and the rest will end up back in the unknown/not believed camp). I realise this doesn't relate to the video on question, but I've been meaning to mention something for a while so thought I'd just go ahead and do so.

[@luminyam6145]

That was really good. It is not an easy thing to separate yourself from your culture to try to get to the truth of an issue. I also find that so few things are black and white, there are many nuances. I hope you are feeling better Vlad. I know we are better for listening to you.💖

[@gerdturidlohneolsen5057]

Thank you so much for your amazing insights. I wish you well. You have a better insights to Russia then many others..❤

[@principetnomusic]

I love following the Forum because of how utterly insane it is.

[@SuperSaabz]

Always come away from our chats together feeling good like I've been washed in a shower of genuineness.

[@pukpukkrolik]

“Dialogue tree” is a metaphor that I like as a description of issues like this. It’s more specific than “the algorithm”. Both feel slightly but acceptably silly, as they’re rooted in modern mechanistic artifacts. Maybe my mind is warped by this modern world, but I don’t feel bad thinking about myself on a deterministic map, as long as it covers enough of a territory. (I’m sorry for mixing more and more metaphors.) Various organizations of knowledge are omnipresent - in libraries, literature canons, fields of science, etc. People who treat politics, and social life in general, too much like sports or clothes, are frustrating to talk to because they’re limited to a few branches, or because they otherwise don’t climb very far, not because their knowledge is derivative and their responses predictable. A conversation that starts with repetitive basics can still get productive, if we can both recognize retreading the entry-level arguments and labels is a waste of time, and we are able and willing to skip to more interesting areas. “How alone would you feel if you could only communicate in the language of that culture?” - I love that. Thanks.

[@MaudMargretheRex]

🙏🏼🙏🏼 any word you say, any second you take out, to share- Im more than thankful. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 but Your health IS also the issue, every time. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 and thats even more Beautiful.. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 because you actually weave the fabric of the hole human experience into all of Your talks. 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@qrsx66]

I would really like to see an independent Buryatia, Tuva and Kalmykia because those languages and cultures are cool.

[@gandalf1379]

You are a kind, honest and gentle soul. You have a considerate and constructive mind and attitude. You have a very keen perception of reality. Don't let the bastards drag you down. I can tell from the comments on each of your videos that you provide strength to people, not just information. Just don't start up a cult lol

[@RuneDrageon]

This could almost go onto the philosophy channel.

[@nancyhope2205]

It is hard to free yourself. You have to be fortunate enough to stumble on words that bring insight. Eventually you chase insights and then you find yourself researching for curiosity and pleasure. It’s a constant challenge, to throw off false thinking, all the more difficult without an interlocutor.

[@nancydelu4061]

One of your BIG messages is: DO THE BEST YOU CAN WITH WHAT YOU'VE GOT! I thank you.

[@normanlaxton]

Thank you for this… Definitely the best I’ve seen from you, Vlad!

[@jaxerman5965]

Great thoughts, hope it catches in the algorithm.

[@user-ed8yv6oz5n]

Us (i) am here listening and with you and i find that positive friend ❤

[@Bran9]

Vlad just give us the best of your truth. God bless my friend 😊

[@robertbrennan2268]

Vlad, your position on the necessary importance of truthfulness in the civic spaces of liberal democracies if these polities are to survive, let alone thrive, is vital and stimulating. The daily endeavour and duty of citizens to "think for themselves", and not to be sucked into a social media vortex of algorithmic ready made sloganising is foundational. As you often put it, "being epistemically grounded" is the starting point. Please take care of yourself as you continue your work in this toxic environment. Your points of anchorage: Berlin, Gray, Ignatieff, Wolheim et al. remian touchstones of authenticity. Great thanks.

[@rachelatwood9555]

nice haircut ;-)

[@mr.coleslaw]

I drove a truck over the road in United States, I am American, we truckers use to joke that the big cities didn't want us in their city but if we stop deliverers they would be out of food in 48 hours. Now look at Russia and the big cities of Moscow and St Peters burg, if they lose food the citizens would riot. They really don't have a set political base that would accept that. They would riot. Political base is not that important. I wish I could read Russian because I have had to rely on translations.

[@chatnoir1224]

Truckers will continue suppling Moscow with food. Several years ago Putin created "private/state" company which did nothing but collecting additional tax from truckers right into Putin's friend wallet. Truckers tried to organize the protests and create the union, but it ended as it always ends in auth.regime - leaders were arrested and sent to jail, protests structures were disbanded. Only mass protests from all social stratas have a chance to win (and when the time right, like in late 1980s) I am russian. I know it is a clown world in U.S. politics now. But cherish and value your liberty and democracy. The moment you lose it, it would almost impossible to get it back.

[@CaroAbebe]

I will never cease to be amazed at how compassionate you are, Vlad. Lots of love from apple strudel and sachertorte country.

[@volkerr.]

Hey. Das ist kulturelle Aneignung 😂. Grüße aus Germany 🇩🇪

[@HylanderSB]

As a child of the Cold War, I am still actively working to separate my image of Russia as being synonymous with Eastern Europe. Under the USSR, that was an easy mistake to make and one Russia most likely encouraged.

[@HylanderSB]

Incidentally, in relation to 'feeling at home in a culture,' my grandmother's family (she was 12 as well!) stopped speaking Russian, even in the home, once they came to America. I learned close to nothing of their time in Russia...It wasn't something they valued.

[@zlozlozlo]

Reacting calmly to being called a tool of Russian propaganda, after all you've done, that must take incredible levels of patience and restraint.

[@olhabohdan3822]

Ukrainians are not psychologically similar to russians, due to different historical background and experience. This is evident when comparing ukrainian literature and its motifs to russian literarure and its main narratives.

[@kyrill007]

Wow, gentle, thoughtful, penetrating. Just brilliant, Vlad. (I hope you're feeling at least a bit better)

[@VladVexlerChat]

@@kyrill007 Kyrill thank you!

[@LindaKerr-h5b]

Love you Vlad. 🇨🇦🇺🇦

[@AllanMil]

I don’t understand 50% of what you say ,but do enjoy your talk and views,thank you .😊

[@researchcooperative]

Thanks!

[@folknboat69]

"a thinking position" beautiful thought.

[@steernkieker]

Vlad; discovered your work only yesterday, gone through dozens of them right away. Quite rare to find something in this medium that isn't hysterical, largely fabricated or otherwise nonsensical, that has such depth. Be well.

[@petermelville5524]

Vlad, thanks, positivity is existentially key, with supporting action/expression = health, in the way movement stimulates endorphins.

[@janronschke7525]

When you talked about the psychologilly non russian russians i immediately had to think of Kara-Mursa and Roman aka NFKRZ, and for nontoxic very russian russian Konstantin from INSIDE RUSSIA. I like them all, also my russian kollegs at work, even though some of them are badly caught in russian propaganda, i still respect them and we get along great, even when we talk politics, but that took time and just beeing a good kolleg to them!

[@tompabay8721]

👍

[@AnnaKull-bz7pv]

The question regarding how lownly I'd feel, if I only had that one language to communicate has answered the question how many cultures I belong two in 2 seconds. I dealt with the question from when I was 15 to 43... Thank you so much!

[@andersgrassman6583]

Vlad, as always, you really serve me "food for thought". This time it touched on my reflections on me doubtlessly feeling and beeing Swedish, beeing borne by Swedish parents, and we spoke Swedish at home - but at the same time I recognize I have a strong connection and affection regarding German language and culture, since I was borne there, and spent my first six and a half years living there. And also, through my German grandfather, I socialized with German relatives when I was a child. There are some obvious German culture artifacts in my way of living, but also some much more elusive views, values and attitudes, which seem to be a very deep cultural heritage in origin, running through many generations, and that at times even seem to be distinctively Preussian in origin! Then there was this reasoning on the value of genuine own thinking. Which of course was the whole (well, just enjoying love and have fun is also important) aim in my bringing up my daughter. Any sensible parent wants to foster an independant, competent human, with their own views, intrests and competences. The aim is not to foster some sort of semi-copy of yourself. P.S. It hurt me watching you today, as your condition was clearly hurting you. Obviously I wish you as many good days as possible!😘 P.P.S. I think beeing a philosopher on youtube, rather than just writing books, sort of connects to (my vision) of old Greek philosophers. I bet Sokrates or Diogenes would have loved to do youtube videos!😉😄

[@miranlakota-p3e]

BRAVO. i m noy a native english speaker BUT I UNDERSTAND ENOUGHT to see your geniuity of thinking

[@hysterylesson4850]

Brilliant. Thank you for the effort, it is really enjoyable, to listen to a philosopher in the making! 😉

[@royhorologic1732]

If you are born in Tunisia the likelihood is that yout parents are Tunisian. How they raise you is also important in relation to whether you regard yourself as Tunisian (or not) as at what age you left Tunisia. Failing to address that fact undermines your argument. I'm just not as smart as you so that may be incorrect I have Michael Ignatieff's biography of Berlin but have not yet read it. Maybe I'll wait for yours. I've always thought that Gore Vidal was the greatest essayist I've read, along with Anthony Burgess.

[@Jack_Redview]

Are you okay Vlad ?

[@VladVexlerChat]

Doing my best thank you - just coming out, or not quite coming out, of a bad interaction between my health condition ME and a virus.

[@michaelwulff4242]

I hope your Isaiah Berlin book is published! What a great subject!

[@petermelville5524]

Living “under culture” does promote “cartoonish ”takes. Cultural transmission also means changing contingencies undermine most hardened identifiers. Demographic shaping factors: ‘home town’, language, ethnocentricity, social, cultural, gender may just be some of the prominent vector points. I enjoy how you connect algorithmic design factors into identifiers.

[@macmcleod1188]

Algorithmic: "Definitively solvable by a finite number of steps; -- said of mathematical or logical problems. Contrasted with heuristic." Algorithm: "A finite set of unambiguous instructions that, given some set of initial conditions, can be performed in a prescribed sequence to achieve a certain goal and that has a recognizable set of end conditions." And in plain english... a step-by-step plan or set of rules which will find a solution, given a set of starting conditions. The goal of the KZbin algorithm is to promote videos that will maximize advertising income.

[@martinhejtmanek2358]

Hi Vlad. A very difficult topic and, I believe, a hard-to-digest format for many. I used to complain about the slowness of the video before you get to something, but now it was like a machine gun of thoughts. It gave me work to follow all the lines :D . That's my only complaint, what your channel suffers from is that you don't go the popular way of simplicity (on youtube for the benefit of viewership). But one has to really dive in and listen. OK. If someone catches my comment, then what you said, I will say in their language, the story of what happened a week ago. : "I watched a video about Polish monuments. There was a comment from a resident of Moscow: "Yes, Poland is great, I also visited Kaliningrad. It's sad that we don't take care of monuments like they do, it's falling apart in Kaliningrad." I got angry, told him why they don't have money for German monuments, but mainly for their own infrastructure in general, roads, etc. (because of the war in Ukraine, etc. ).His answer shocked me. That I shouldn't be toxic, that Russian people are living ok, because of petrodollars, and he doesn't feel any signs of sanctions and war, that he keeps going to Europe through Istanbul...WTF? I answered him in my country (CZECH REPUBLIC) every 17th inhabitant is Ukrainian because of the war (almost 600,000 ppl) and we took care of all of them. I wrote to him that if someone doesn't throw a brick at his window, he doesn't care what happens in the world. I think this is an example of the Russian approach to life: "S**t up and move on". Password from the USSR. I personally did not break a stick over the Russians. I watch videos of opposition politicians. But I think this is what is in the minds of 90 percent of Russians right now - not to stand out. Regarding the independence of individual nations: Of course I support them. But the problem is that even if they declare independence, they are mostly surrounded by Russians from all sides. Russia will simply surround the borders and let them starve. In addition, most territories lost most of the original population on their territory after violent Stalinization. A lost cause in my opinion. Another case is Dagestan. They have been fighting for independence in the mountains for over 300 years. They even announced a successful referendum on independence. Yeltsin signed a temporary cooperation agreement with them. Putin refused to extend it, and now they could de facto secede. I think this is an interesting topic for another video and analysis. PS: Regarding resistance. After the annexation of the Kursk part, people are starting to speak up, they are getting the courage to say something against Puttler's regime. In the Belgorod region, they arrested and tortured womens who came forward on tic-toc and KZbin, but that is very few. The regime cracks, but it is terribly little. Puttler doesn't care how Kursk turns out. Let's not have any illusions. Many Western KZbinrs can already see the collapse of Russia yesterday. I don't think so. I don't know what the recipe is for Russia to get out of this mess. Maybe another topic for a video. Thanks for the good work. GL🤔

[@lxcaldero]

I am half way of the video and decided to comment on the topic of being russian without knowing Vlad´s take, it came to my mind that several nations had been part of Russia and now independent the lesson seems to be wary, Poland very supportive of Ukraine,, and be prepared for war, Finland comes to mind, but countries of the Russosphere like Belarus and Ukraine don´t want to rejoin, even Belarus takes the goodies and stay mostly away from the war. To me is astounding how a russian can be dragged to a meat grinder so easily and the civilians so infinitely passive to the maladies of the war and the indifference to the unnecessary suffering they are causing and the blindness that most likely the territorial gains will be untenable in the long term. I also wonder if this generation of russians have the cultural strength to produce masterpieces that are essential to, paradoxically, western culture, I´ll continue watching ...

[@Ben1220]

Vlad is like the amazing coalesce that would have happened if my favourite world renowned professor actually made an effort to figure out how to communicate to us lowly undergraduates at our own level instead of treating teaching like an annoying admin task to give the minimum required mental effort.

[@photonotavailable7936]

Vlad, Best of luck with your health. Best wishes from the USA!

[@christophercousins184]

I hope you feel better, thanks for the video

[@stevenpace892]

There are advantages and disadvantages of unity. The real question is, is the federation a benefit to its members. I think it is obvious that the structure of the federation is designed to benefit Russia proper. I think the rest of Russia would be expected to want to be 'liberated' if their legitimate concerns are not addressed, i.e. infrastructure in Siberia. Note, ethnicity is not necessarily the important factor; more likely regional economic issues are.

[@persallnas5408]

The way your voice sound makes me very worried. I will keep you on my mind and hope for things getting better.

[@wendyarnold6921]

Thank you, Vlad.

[@terryhand]

Thanks Vlad. That was a fascinating talk

[@danielmadar9938]

Thanks